Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in three forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲346 (商)

Oracle bone: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Action & Movement

歹

歹 death, decay, bone

がつ gatsu

4 strokesRadical of 4 kanjiPart of 6

Your ink in 歹0% painted · 0 of 4 familiar

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The cycle turns! This radical represents the stark reality of mortality and the biological transformations that happen after life ends. When you see it, think of the fragile nature of our bodies, the solemnity of passing, and the deep, inescapable "decay" that eventually returns all things to the earth. it brings a sense of gravity, finality, and biological truth to any character it joins.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates death and dying, decay and decomposition, broken bones or fragments, ruin and destruction, or the state of being unfortunate.

育つ

What it grows into

Built from 歹, with sourced origins
一覧

Every kanji with 歹 as its radical

Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

All 4 kanji